Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-09-26

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daylight and dark Huzzas from thousands
of threats greeted them as they alighted
from their trains, and the march to their e
spec i've headquarters under numberless
arches and through miles of gally decorated
streets was one continual ovation 1t was a
great Sunday and memorable one for those
OF its guests who had fought and bei that
the union might be preserved
The train that carried the Wisconsin dele
cation was the first to arrive. The clock i'll
the city hall was striking 5 when it came TO Il
iul stop in the Union station There We're
thousands inside and as many more outside.
Seventeen of the boys in blue, forming the
special escort to Governor Rusk, alighted
from the forward car Nine of them were
minus an arm, five had but one leg apiece,
and two more were on clutches. Back of them
appeared the towering form OF the governor
himself, and as the eighteen formed in line
with Robert Chivers post, of Milwaukee,, and
its fife and drum corps at their head, vol
ume of cheers went up that fairly shook the
roof of the structure The ovation was re-
peated when the delegation arrived in front
of the Lindel and three times-three was
given by the occupants of the crow ed lobby
as the veterans marched through in single
file
In the ladies' parlor local committee was
in waiting to welcome them. If you see any
thing you want ask for it, said Col D. P.
Dwyer, its spokesman If You don't see
anybody to ask, take it. The governor prom
ised that the instruction would be strictly
obeyed
Fifty comrades from Albany, Utica, Syr-
acuse and Buffalo, in escort of Department
Commander George d. Treadwell, came in
about 9 O'Clock With them were a score of
members of the Womans Relief corps. A
thousand more of the comrades from New
York state will be here Ga the same train
was delegation of twenty from the con-
vention of the ex-Prisoners of war held in
Chicago last week, with G. W. Mcintosh, of
that city, at its head They will present to
the national encampment the resolutions
adopted by the convention urging the grant
ing of special pensions to eN PRISONERS and
will ask their Endorsement
Six hundred boxes OF wine and two car
loads of fruit and agricultural products were
| in the baggage ears on the rear end of the
| train that brought in the California delega-
| ton in the afternoon The posts not only OF
| California but of Nevada Arizona and a
solitary one that has been brought into ex-
| istence in the Sandwich islands, were repre-
sented in the delegation, and jollier crowd
| could scarcely be imagined Headquarters
| were at once established at the Laclede, four
| hundred boxes of the wine was conveyed to
| the ante room, and a committee was dis
| PATCHED to notify the posts at the other hos
telries that the Calforuians Were keeping
! open house. Still another committee was APP
pointed to corral any wearer. of Grand
Army badge to be found upon the streets. Few
| of them needed a second invitation and for
the rest of the day and evening standing
room in the headquarters and their APP
| proaches was at a premium. There are
nearly 800 comrades in the delegation, to-
| gether with 80 members of the WOman's Re
| lief Corps, the largest delegation of this order
| from any department.
| There was caucus Sunday evening of the
Cahfornians, and it is reported that it ha0
reference to nominee for commandment.
! chief This, however, denied by De
| partinent Commander G s Solomon and
| Assistant Adiutant Taylor, who also gave al
/ emphatic denial to the statement teIegraphed
| from San Francisco that the majority of
| delegates had decided in favor OF Gen. Sher-
man for the position, The question, they